Word: ribbentrop
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...Joachim von Ribbentrop and Viacheslav Molotov had signed the Russian-German pact in Moscow. Twelve hours after its ratification on Aug. 31, Hitler gave the signal that sent the German armored divisions rumbling across the frontier against the Polish cavalry, the Luftwaffe against the all but defenseless Polish cities. Thus, on the fifth anniversary of World War II, the war was back where it started...
...Yugoslavia, disarming of the few German troops still in Bulgaria. ¶Hungary's astute Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy, dissolved all political parties (the only undissolved parties in Hungary are pro-Nazi), called an emergency cabinet meeting, received an emergency visitor from the Reich, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...toward peace with Russia without first informing Berlin. But the cause of Finland's crisis lay deeper. Watching the Red Army thrusts along the Baltic, even the most myopic Finn could see that soon Finland would be cut off from Germany. The troops, tanks, guns and planes that Ribbentrop promised had not been delivered. Finns could no longer be fooled or fool themselves...
...managed discreetly to suggest that his country might change its isolationist mind if a Nazi victory seemed imminent. The portraiture in Welles's European travelogue rings clear and true. The late Count Ciano is shown boldly expressing his contempt for German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and his antagonism toward Hitler. Mussolini astonished Welles by seeming inert, ponderous and static. His close-cropped hair was snow white. In repose, his face fell in rolls of flesh. When the Duce talked, he kept his eyes shut save for moments when he remembered his reputation for staring "dynamically...
...After Ribbentrop's departure I was able to observe the effect of his remarks, suitably edited and sweetened, as they filtered down the line to lesser lights. For a week, I was the only Allied journalist in town. Unmolested, though carefully watched, I could walk the streets, listen to the German soldiers in bars and cafes, converse with people who, though on the Axis side, still seemed anxious to explain why they did what they...